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Yamaha DX7, bass

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Contest: Yamaha DX7 played bass on Carol Masters by Alphaville (1986)

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Settings

osc
FM: 2-op sine bass, unison 1, detune 0 cents, sub sine -1
filter
LP 24 dB/oct
cutoff
260 Hz
resonance
0.2, drive 0.1
envelope
A 3 ms D 50 ms S 0.85 R 150 ms; none; filter env amount 0
modulation
mono
effects
chorus: none; light compression, none
notes
Deep DX7 FM sine-bass patch underpinning the verse, kept simple; an original demo of the track (with different bass phrasing) later appeared on the 2021 remaster.

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Revision history

  • Seedsystem